Gurdonark

Ambient.

Weirdbient.

Chill.

music teleported from the edge of the Texas prairie
to the edge of the imagination.

shared music for download and re-use.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Ace Texan film-maker (now in Iowa) Julianna Villarosa gave her friends some 16mm footage and invited them to make something with it. Then she added all the micro-films together. The resulting film is called:

Saturday, October 20, 2018

Australian film-maker Marie Craven used my music, likably remixed a bit, in her video "Endless Wall to Wall Carpet", which is a response to a poem by Anne Cotten. I am pleased to learn that her film was accepted to the 2018 Zebra Poetry Film Festival.

Thursday, May 17, 2018

I am pleased that three of my pieces appear on the release "Double Blindfold Project" on the Cerebral Audio netlabel.

In this project, I created one piece, "Surgery". Then I was sent anonymized samples by the artist Delicasession to create a second piece, "Words Left Unsaid (re-imagined Delicasession)". Then I was sent a further set of anonymized samples to create "Distant Festival".

I enjoyed the process of creation, though with hindsight I wish that I had had more fun with the samples that I used to create "Distant Festival". I went for the raucous blend, when perhaps I should have used a scalpel for the subtle tone instead.

St. Louis ambient and electronica artist Mystified curated a new compilation called "New Mind Emergence'. Consistent with its theme, I created a song called "The Robot Smiles Upon Enlightenment". I am pleased to have this track released on Mystified's curated compilation:

Although I was born in Texas, I grew up in Arkansas. My artist name is a contraction of Gurdon, Arkansas, the town I lived in from age 5 to age 15. I sometimes think of myself as being "of" each of the three places at which I have lived for years---Texas, Arkansas and California. But by any measure, I nonetheless am an Arkansas artist.

So I found myself well-pleased to be asked to contribute to the compilation "Ambient Arkansas". My song "Poison Springs" refers to a battlefield about 20 miles from each of the three towns in which I grew up. I dutifully resisted the urge to add cannons to the song, despite an inner 1812 Overture longing.

Here's a link to the album, available on Bandcamp from the Aural Films label: